9 B u s i n e s s p l a n | F i s h m e a l a n d f i s h o i l p r o d u c t i o n Industr y over view I NDU S T RY OV E RV I EW GLOBAL PRODUCTION Global production of fishmeal is concentrated around a few top producers; top ten manufacturers are making approximately 80 per cent of the global production. Today Peru is the largest producer, Chile the second, and then Thailand, China, EU etc. The species used in production vary from region to region, but generally speaking it consists of small, bony, pelagic fish that has little or no commercial value as fish for direct consumption (FAO 1986). It is estimated that about 90 per cent of the fish species used to make fishmeal is “presently unmarketable in large quantities as human food” (Bose et.al 1991). Figure 7. The largest fishmeal producers
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